Mining Incidents

Walker's Dirt Pit Metal/Non-Metal

New Market, Knox County, TN  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4003485

Walker's Dirt Pit has $626 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
5
citations
0
significant & substantial
$626
proposed penalties
$626
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
15
inspections on record
83
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 83 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Walker's Dirt Pit has $626 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$626
proposed penalties
$626
current assessed
$626
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-03-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 980 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,800 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,000 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,700 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,800 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,200 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 4,000 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 3,800 0 0 0.0
Show 23 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 4,200 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 4,300 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 3,800 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 4,000 1 0 250.0
2022 Q4 2,500 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 2,700 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 3,000 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 3,000 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 3,000 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 3,300 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 3,100 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 3,300 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,200 1 0 312.5
2020 Q3 3,400 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 3,300 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 3,400 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 3,300 1 0 303.0
2019 Q3 3,300 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 3,300 1 0 303.0
2019 Q1 3,300 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 3,200 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,200 1 0 312.5
2018 Q2 2,520 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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